Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Strong and fast to the last till the goal is passed...
Football prospects brightened some what in the practice yesterday afternoon, for in at 45-minute scrimmage of hard and fast playing the University team scored twice on the substitutes and held the latter strong eleven to one score, resulting from a fumbled punt by the first. The University team took the ball in midfield and score in ten minutes, a 25-yard run by Reynolds placing the ball in a position for Wendell's touchdown. The next score was by the substitutes, Black all kicked a bouncing ball to the University 10-yard line, where it was recovered by Jenckes...
After the usual dummy scrimmage with the substitutes the first team lined up for signal drill. All the regular players were in the line-up, making the drill very fast and snappy. One of the feat ures of the practice was the number of exceptionally, accurate forward passes from Logan to Coolidge and Weatherhead. The team seems to be in excellent condition, needing only the finishing touches of practice today and tomorrow...
...University football team was put through an hour's hard drill yesterday afternoon, the first half-hour being devoted to a hard scrimmage in which the first team scored one touchdown, Reynolds carrying the ball across the goal-line. Practice was fast and all the men showed up to good advantage. Another radical shift was made in the line-up, Storer replacing Jenckes at right tackle and Parmenter filling the vacant centre position. Frothingham played centre and Lingard left tackle on the substitute eleven...
...first line and particularly of the ends was better today than for some time. Hardwick and Bradlee were not in the scrimmage yesterday, but will be at their usual positions for the game with Yale on Saturday, and together with Brickley and Logan should form a very fast and powerful backfield. Practice this afternoon will be the last hard work for the team before the Yale game...